Ganesh Thapa Asia and the Pacific Division International Fund for Agricultural Development The second in a series of discussion papers produced by the Asia and the Pacific Division, IFAD 2 Enabling the rural poor to overcome poverty The opinions expressed in this volume are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect official views or policies of the International Fund for Agricultural ...

In order to overcome the disadvantages of inconvenience and low accuracy of keywords spitting search, and artificial answer delay for the online messages in the current agricultural consulting system, this paper proposes a solution which complement the advantages of automatic question answer with expert real-time answer. Firstly, vector space model was improved by semantic extension and feature...

In developing world, awareness and environmental concerns are forcing small medium-sized enterprises to adopt green practices. Hence it is important distinguish the major obstacles/barriers which hinders adoption of practices in SMEs. This study utilizes a framework (three-phase) classify barriers/obstacles solutions eliminate these obstacles innovation adoption. total, twenty-five barriers fif...

One problem of eliciting knowledge from several experts is that experts may share only parts of their terminologies and conceptual systems. Experts may use the same term for different concepts, use different terms for the same concept, use the same term for the same concept, or use different terms and have different concepts. Moreover, clients who use an expert system have even less likelihood ...

organic agriculture, sometimes called biological or ecological agriculture, combines traditional conservation-minded farming methods with modern farming technologies .the purpose of this research was to identify management skills in development of organic agriculture in west azerbaijan province (iran) farms. the target population of this research included all agricultural experts who work in we...